Hong Kong, 5 March 2014 - Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories, today announced that the Japan Securities Depository Center (JASDEC) has successfully gone live with ISO 20022 on SwiftNet on 6 January, the first major securities market infrastructure (SMI) to use the international standard for end-to-end settlement.

By joining SwiftRef, Volante users will have access to Swift for all their payments reference data needs, helping to reduce costs and improve straight-through-processing (STP) of international and SEPA payments.

Swift is the channel of choice for banks to operate domestic transactions through the new Bangladesh Bank RTGS.

Supporting secure, resilient operations of our customers

Yuji Takei to lead relationship management teams and accelerate growth strategy in Japan.

Partnership will enable seamless treasury management connectivity with financial institutions

Instant payment gateway will deliver single, low cost access to multiple market operators

London, April 29, 2013 - SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist, today announced that its TLM Trade Process Management solution, which addresses the post-trade allocation, confirmation, clearing and settlement processes, now fully supports Swift's Global Electronic Trade Communication (GETC) solution.

MyStandards is helping more than 40,000 users manage standards definitions and industry practice more efficiently. And as we move towards the transition of cross-border transactions to the ISO 20022 messaging standard, MyStandards will be playing a key support role.

Academics from the Singapore Management University describe a new mechanism to optimise the settlement process.